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Frank van Lerven – Public debt and debt servicing costs: The nightmare that never was

November 20, 2021 MDRose 0

National debt has been used as a propaganda tool in the class war to transfer wealth to the rich. What if  you have a high national debt but a very low debt servicing payments? This […]

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Philipp Heimberger – Do higher public debt levels undermine growth?

November 20, 2021 MDRose 0

Philipp recently published a new empirical study on whether higher public debt levels reduce economic growth. Philipp Heimberger is Economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) This interview was originally posted in […]

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Marko Hočevar – Slovenia: the crisis of a parliamentary republic in the swamp of neoliberalism

November 9, 2021 MDRose 0

The case of Slovenia shows once more that in the EU “There is no alternative”, just neo-liberalism. Marko Hočevar is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia).   After […]

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Richard Murphy – Austerity and interest increases are not in any way required by inflation. If they happen they are the politics of upwards redistribution of wealth

October 25, 2021 MDRose 0

Be it a government deficit, inflation, or too much democracy, austerity is always the policy of choice for neo-liberals. Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting, Sheffield University Management School. Chartered accountant. […]

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Richard Murphy – The dead hand of German monetary policy is now to be found at the Bank of England – and that’s a threat to us all

October 21, 2021 MDRose 0

The push to renew austerity is being felt in much of Europe as the maintenance of the existing hierarchy of wealth within society is the priority Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor of […]

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Shutdown – How Covid Shook the World Economy by Adam Tooze

October 19, 2021 MDRose 0

Book Review by Michael Roberts Adam Tooze has a new book out, Shutdown.  Tooze is the liberal left’s current favourite historian.  His previous book, The Wages of Destruction,  won the Wolfson Prize for History and […]

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Gustavo Piga – Europe and Italy’s Gamble: (Still) Flirting with Austerity

October 5, 2021 MDRose 0

In which direction is Draghi going: serving the Italian people or EU neo-liberalism? Gustavo Piga is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata Cross-posted from Gustavo’s website The Fall release of […]

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Wolfgang Streeck – Zero for the left, no support for Paris, and the difficult task of getting Merkel’s boots on the ground

October 2, 2021 MDRose 0

The Left Party’s (Die Linke)s dismal results in the German elections eliminate any chance of a red-green-red (R2G) coalition government, much to the relief of the leaders of both the SPD Social Democrats and the […]

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Wolfgang Streeck – Believe me, it will be enough

September 10, 2021 MDRose 0

When debt grows faster than capitalism, the governance of capitalist political economies becomes a Ponzi-like confidence game. Wolfgang Streeck is the Emeritus Director of Director the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in […]

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Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie: Boris’ Healthcare Reform is Grossly Unjust and Economically Damaging

September 5, 2021 MDRose 0

Whilst the UK still lumbers under high COVID infection rates, and the economic recovery stalls, with GDP growth now at a trickle, the government wants to raise taxes. Even if you believed it was a […]

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

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Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate by Dani Rodrik

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Book Review by Walden Bello Dani Rodrik has impeccable credentials as an economist. He is an expert in many areas, including trade and development, and is one of Harvard University’s leading lights. In recent years, […]

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